Friday, February 15, 2013 Where wild things are Endless Conversation By TONY EVANS Express Staff Writer Someone put a large tropical bird in the monkey house at the Boise zoo. It squawks loudly from time to time, sending the family of gibbons next door leaping through the ropes and tree limbs of their dwelling. Zookeepers call this “enrichment,” activities that stimulate animals in ways that imitate life in the wild. There are a great many other creatures great and small at Zoo Boise, from legless lizards and Komodo dragons, to the native squirrels and geese that roam the grounds, teasing the snow leopards and bobcats into stalking mode. Each animal has a role in nature. When things calm down at the Monkey House, young Li Bao, a female gibbon who was born at the zoo, once again tussles with her parents, who loll about a lot more than the youngster. It is easy to become emotionally attached to this troupe of primates, to wonder what...